I’m very pleased to say that a paper I co-wrote with Neil Thurman of City University, London, has been accepted for publication by the journal, Journalism Practice.
The paper, “A clash of cultures: The integration of user-generated content within professional journalistic frameworks at British newspaper websites”, examines the response of the leading UK newspaper websites to user-generated content.
It was presented at the Future of Newspapers conference in September in Cardiff. A copy of that paper is available here as a PDF
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